posted on Dec 23, 2018, 11:29 PM 1

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posted on Dec 22, 2018, 11:56 PM 1

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“that figure includes new Android devices that come out of the box with the app pre-installed.”
That is the only way that app could have reached 1 billion; it would be an interesting info how many are actually using it.

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posted on Dec 23, 2018, 7:23 AM 1

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Wow so many haters.
I do use this app. It's very convenient, it's easy to set up and the video/audio quality is great.
And what's the problem that it comes preinstalled? Isn't this one of the main advantages of FaceTime? When it's not about Apple it's always bad it seems.
Anyway plenty of my contacts use the app.
The most important thing is that I'm not platform limited when using Duo, any of my contacts either have the app or can install it. Big plus.
Also for the Apple haters, Duo has 4.7 out of 5 in Apple's app store so it looks like iOS users also like the app quite a lot.
1 billions downloads is quite a big number and I'm sure it's not the upper limit, Duo will continue to grow.

posted on Dec 23, 2018, 4:20 PM 1

Posts: 1181; Member since: Mar 15, 2018

marcwand3l, i agree with you on many points... a great benefit to imessage and facetime on ios is that it is preinstalled and integrated into OS along with Siri and can be integrated with other apps using apple provided APK's. I've been away from android when I bought my iphoneX and it makes me happy to learn that google is forcing this on many android devices (it should be ALL android devices in my opinion).
I would drop facetime if everyone used Duo, as it is cross platform compatible unlike facetime. But I do live where majority are using iphones and ipads dominate the tablet market where i can facetime to from my iphone regardless if their phone is an android.
But no one uses it, and that's unfortunate. apparently numbers isnt what google needs - it needs exposure, mass exposure. and just like facetime - you should be able to use a phone number to just facetime even if the other person NEVER used it. I've surprised many customers when I need to explain something and the dialer apps on my iphone gives me the option for facetime - you can switch to that during a call. Very convenient - and that's why it's used by everyone on ios.
for your last point: I do install googles apps on ios, just to see if they're just as good as they're on android. and google does a great job making apps on ios - they deserve the 4.7 rating for this app and others as well. At home i have a PC with chrome browser and it integrades with my iphones safari extreemly well along with favorites and other features. everything i do on chrome on PC is mirrored to my safari on ios and honestly it's because of google (not apple) that it's possible due to extensions.
so yes there are plenty of people that long for crossplatform apps - and we do install google apps and test them - but they stay for a short time as theres no use for them when no one on the other end uses them.
I hope that DUO will grow (feel sad for ALLO to be discontinued by google).

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